Cookhouse of 8th Hussars – Vintage Print
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Cookhouse of 8th Hussars comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cookhouse of 8th Hussars
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Few images from the Crimean War show the routine of a cavalry camp as plainly as this view of the cookhouse of the 8th Hussars. Roger Fenton made it around 1855, during the months he spent in the Crimea photographing the British army for a London publisher, working with a large camera and paper negatives. The salted paper print, a process that produced softer, warmer tones than the later albumen prints, captures the camp's everyday setting. Fenton's Crimean work is often cited as one of the first sustained photographic records of a war.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 16 x 21 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Group portraits 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with vertical line on the left. DLC Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the Crimea, with an essay on his life and work. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the Crimea, with an essay on his life and work / Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. London : Secker & Warburg, 1954, no. 34. |
| Subjects | Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military personnel--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Military life--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,203 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124467 |
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